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BLACKFORD 58, WES-DEL 43: Recap + Reaction with Aaron Daniels (2.168.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to a special edition of the Blackford Bruins Report on the Central Indian Sports Report.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host Greg Mangel and this is our recap of the Blackford Bruins.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: 55-45 victory at West Dell on Tuesday night after a week off since their loss at J.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: County.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Then I will talk to Blackford head coach Aaron Daniels and if you haven't heard it yet, please go check out Tuesdays, Blackford Bruins report the first official Blackford Bruins report.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be out every Tuesday talking about Blackford Bruins boys basketball.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll also have a recap after every game and reaction from Coach Daniels.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: One more thing before we get to it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It was a much-needed win for Blackford coming into the game with four losses in five games.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: After a program record-breaking 13 and OSTART, that has Blackford now at 15 and four on the season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The 15th win of the year, top last year's 14 win season, and is the most for Blackford since the 25 and 5.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Regional Championship team under Coach Null in 2021.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't the prettiest first half ever, but Blackford did hold a 15-8 lead at the end of the first, and it's 25-17 lead at the end of the second.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The issue was the third quarter and early in the fourth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Bruins Outscored West Dell 22-10 in the fourth quarter, including 18-8.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: in the final 5 minutes of the contest.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Senior Jacob Dillon led Blackford with 18 points and 9 rebounds, the 18 points easily a season high for Jacob.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He had 13 points in a win over Clinton Prairie on January 2nd at Franklin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's the 12th time this year that he has had at least 8 rebounds in again.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Soft Mor Star, Marry Legget, finished with 16 points and 5 assists.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Senior Coast Star, Mason Kidterman, 14 points and 6 rebounds.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Senior Guard Reggie Durin, finished with 8 points and 3 assists, and Junior Forward E-Li Morgan contributed 2 points and 4 rebounds.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And now things start to get really interesting for Blackford.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Starting on Friday, of course, it is a showdown with class 2A, number 3 Oak Hill.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Golden Eagles, like Blackford, got off to an incredibly hot start, 15-0 before taking their first loss of the season at home on Friday, 58-53-2-class 4-A homestead as a really good homestead program.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So a really good Oak Hill team that's going to be looking for revenge after Blackford kept the gold needles from winning the CIC outright Blackford tying for the CIC title after beating Oak Hill 66 to 40 last year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So the Bruins definitely have to feel like they can compete in this one, even against the team with a resume like Oak Hills.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Then the first home game in over three weeks, and it doesn't get any easier, 13 and 3 North Western comes the town.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Tigers winners of six straight as of Tuesday night.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and then they go to Fort Wayne to face eight, 12 and six nighter team, A4A program and a very good team this year, that's near the top of the summer conference standings.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: On Tuesdays, Blackford Bruins report, Coach Daniels and I talked about how tough this final stretch of the season is and how it can benefit his team in the long run.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But for now, here are his comments on Blackford's 58 to 43 win over West Hill.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Please stay tuned for Aaron Daniels.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we didn't play our best basketball and I blame our coaches for that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I truly think that we were really looking forward to Friday and looking at Oak Hill and we'd have had that marked on the schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's, you know, there's a night where we came out tired and different things, which really shouldn't happen on a week's prep.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so our blame us coaches, we gotta do a better job of getting us ready.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But with that being said, when you don't,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You got to come out and you got to find a gritty way to win and we haven't always done that you know down the stretch here So I was proud of our kids in the way they battled and they were able to you know come through with that and pull it out at the end And as we mentioned on the Blackford Bruins report this week West Dell is better than their Resume my up here
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We knew that they were going to be tough and then we, you know, we missed the scouting report a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We had a kid hit four threes in the first half on us, which, you know, that's entirely on us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we knew that they were able to do some things with their athleticism and things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They gave us some problems.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They were really, really physical with Mari, you know, at times they let the game be really physical both ways.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we just didn't handle that very well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We, we had stretched it out to, I think, 12 in the first quarter, second quarter,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they were a better basketball team than their record shows.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that is not indicative of the kind of team that they have.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Big night for Jacob Dillon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and we need some more scoring from our role players and those kinds of situations.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And with Jacob Dillon, it's one of those things where it's all confidence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When he thinks he's one of the better players on the floor, he is really, really hard to stop.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a dominant on the boards.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: side when you're playing with Mari, you're going to get a lot of easy buckets and then you know, there's other nights where he kind of shines away, we need him to know and play with the confidence that he's a really good player because he is a really good player and when he is is going and he can give us some production inside, you know, he gave us 18 to night
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  [SPEAKER_00]: when we can get something like that, we can have three people and double figures like we did tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That makes us really hard to guard.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then you don't just become the two-headed monster of Mar in Mason Kidderman.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And 15th win of the season, very least you've improved over last year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that, you know, we had some goals going into the season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We wanted to compete for the CIC title.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We wanted to compete for a sectional.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We wanted to improve our record.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we've had a tough stretch here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we've lost four out of six.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But all of our goals are still ahead of us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We improved our record.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've still got some games on the schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've got a huge one Friday at the O'Keele.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We still have a sectional opponent in Muncie Burris.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We still got room to improve upon those things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm proud of where we are at this point in the season, but we still have a lot of work to be done and still have some good basketball head of us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And you're certainly going to have to be better on Friday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, okay, I think to the best team we've played, they're extremely disciplined.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They play extremely hard.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You just can't make mistakes with them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They are truly sharks in the water.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they smell blood and they do not give up.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they are relentless.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the tonical kids are unbelievable for the poise that both Jason will both show and will being a freshman.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just unbelievable the way they play and they just they they defend for 32 straight minutes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They played nine kids They don't lose much when kids come in off the bench.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They have a really really good basketball team and there There's not going to be a light that's too bright for them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've played in big moments.
• 8:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: They played in big games
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you want to go on the road in the CIC compete for the title against I think one of the top two or three teams in two a We've got to go do it for tonight.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have to take care of the basketball and you have to do all of the little things right to compete games like that And a shot at the CIC championship and that's a big deal
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: It is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a huge deal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And for us, the CIC, the history is so rich.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's been stretches there where we're frightened and no kill competed for state titles.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There, it's always a deep league.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's another deep league this year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: to be in the position we are, this is where we wanted to be, even though we do have the loss to Frank and but we wanted to compete.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have this this date marked on our calendar again that, you know, we wanted to have a chance to win the CIC on this day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so it is a huge deal for us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They have the horseshoe.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a game that if you think you're going to be at the top of the two A and you want to compete for that regional and semi-state title, you have to be able to compete with with a team like O'Kill.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Blackford Ed coach Aaron Daniels, thank you so much for
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you very much, and thank you as always for the covers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We appreciate all you do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks again so much to Coach Daniels and the Blackford Bruins for Welcome in the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 10:04
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And thank you so much for listening.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We will be back on Friday night with a recap
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  [SPEAKER_01]: coach Daniel's reaction to the game against Oak Hill.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Also we had a recap of the Frankton and we do the Blackford Bruins report on Tuesday, the Elwood Panther report on Wednesday and the Frankton Eagles report on Thursday looking to add more all the time.
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